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Podcast: Vita Poetica Journal
Episode: Kani ka ‘ōpala by Benjamin Fairfield
Description: Benjamin Fairfield reads and performs music from his multimedia feature, "Kani ka ‘ōpala: A Musical Redemption of Rubbish."
Benjamin Fairfield served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a Karen village in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and received his MA and PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He founded the Thai Ensemble at UH (MUS311), where his students create their own instruments from repurposed rubbish found on campus, and has developed the course into an illustrated children's book that is forthcoming with UH Press (Fall 2025). His ongoing projects can be viewed at his websit...